Director Isaac Ezban (The Similars, The Incident) departs from his usual exploration of science fiction to deliver his first full horror feature, Evil Eye (Mal de Ojo). Ezban uses his sci-fi origins as an entry point into a horror fairy tale that blends Dominican myth and Mexican folklore with modern sensibilities for an emotionally charged, witchy story full of blood.
Parents Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and Guillermo (Arap Bethke) grow increasingly worried over sickly young daughter Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro), who’s becoming increasingly resistant to treatment for her illness. They pack her up along with neglected older sibling Nala (Paola Miguel) and head to the countryside. The parents leave their children behind with Grandma Josefa (Ofelia Medina) as they head back to the city, searching for cures beyond conventional medicine. But Nala and Luna have never been to the countryside, nor have they ever met their strict grandmother. After Josefa...
Parents Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and Guillermo (Arap Bethke) grow increasingly worried over sickly young daughter Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro), who’s becoming increasingly resistant to treatment for her illness. They pack her up along with neglected older sibling Nala (Paola Miguel) and head to the countryside. The parents leave their children behind with Grandma Josefa (Ofelia Medina) as they head back to the city, searching for cures beyond conventional medicine. But Nala and Luna have never been to the countryside, nor have they ever met their strict grandmother. After Josefa...
- 9/29/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Isaac Ezban's "Evil Eye" ("Mal de Ojo") welcomes and reassures audiences with grandmotherly comforts like a folkloric horror tale before nap time. Co-writers Junior Rosario and Edgar San Juan help Ezban summon brujas (basically witches) and terrify infirm children with witchy production value fit for the grimmest fairy tale books. "Evil Eye" explores Dominican campfire stories that drip of slime-green goo and adolescent curiosities about the dark arts. Ezban's filmmaking is a warm genre blanket that wraps around viewers, as the soothing bonds of bloodlines turn treacherous the farther we press into whimsically malevolent cultural influences.
Littlest Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro) suffers from an affliction that her parents will do anything to cure. Mother Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and father Guillermo (Arap Bethke) have enough to worry about as their rental complex is ravaged by a sickness that continually infects children — luckily Luna and older sister Nala (Paola Miguel) remain unaffected,...
Littlest Luna (Ivanna Sofia Ferro) suffers from an affliction that her parents will do anything to cure. Mother Rebecca (Samantha Castillo) and father Guillermo (Arap Bethke) have enough to worry about as their rental complex is ravaged by a sickness that continually infects children — luckily Luna and older sister Nala (Paola Miguel) remain unaffected,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
The Dreams of a Few
Mexican director Michel Franco will shortly move into production on his sixth feature, The Dreams of a Few (Lo que algunos soñaron) described by producer Edgar San Juan as a near-future dystopia. Projected to be one of the director’s most ambitious works to date, as he usually works with a handful of characters in more intimate scenarios, his latest will be shot with an all Mexican cast in Mexico. The same core behind-the-scenes crew from past Franco productions, including cinematographer Yves Cape, will also be on hand. Franco received immediate attention with his 2009 debut Daniel and Ana, which premiered out of Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.…...
Mexican director Michel Franco will shortly move into production on his sixth feature, The Dreams of a Few (Lo que algunos soñaron) described by producer Edgar San Juan as a near-future dystopia. Projected to be one of the director’s most ambitious works to date, as he usually works with a handful of characters in more intimate scenarios, his latest will be shot with an all Mexican cast in Mexico. The same core behind-the-scenes crew from past Franco productions, including cinematographer Yves Cape, will also be on hand. Franco received immediate attention with his 2009 debut Daniel and Ana, which premiered out of Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.…...
- 1/8/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Gary Alazraki’s new feature finds international sales and co-production partner at Rome’s Mia market.
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
- 10/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
Gary Alazraki’s new feature finds international sales and co-production partner at Rome’s Mia market.
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
Mexican director Gary Alazraki’s next feature Almost Paradise (Casi El Paraiso) has locked a coproduction partner and international sales company during the last day of Rome Film Festival’s Mia market.
True Colours – the new sales company that is a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film — will handle sales for all territories except for North and Latin America, where Fox International Pictures has already secured rights.
Indigo Film, whose credits include The Great Beauty, has also boarded as a co-producer, alongside Film Tank and Ivanhoe Pictures.
The film will shoot in both Mexico and Italy, and it marks the director’s first movie since 2013 smash comedy hit The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles). That film earned more than $340m at the global box office and was remade in Italy by Colorado Film Production as Daddy’s Girl...
- 10/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
The festival, set to run in Mexico from November 11-15, has unveiled the selections in its After Dark, American Specials and Green programmes.
Entries in the After Dark genre section feature films that have garnered acclaim at other festivals and include Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales and the Latin American premieres of Robert Eggers’ The Witch (pictured) and Bo Mikkelsen’s What We Become.
The American Specials selections present Mexican permieres of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Marielle Heller’s The Diary of A Teenage Girl.
The Green strand presented by Discovery Channel showcases the Latin American premiere of Cyril Barbançon and Andy Byatt’s Hurricane 3D and the Mexican premieres of Louie Psihoyos’s Racing Extinction and Luc Jacqyet’s La Glace Et Le Ciel.
Festival top brass have also announced entries in the Cabos In Progress initiative for films in post that are made in or being produced with Mexico.
The selections...
Entries in the After Dark genre section feature films that have garnered acclaim at other festivals and include Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales and the Latin American premieres of Robert Eggers’ The Witch (pictured) and Bo Mikkelsen’s What We Become.
The American Specials selections present Mexican permieres of Scott Cooper’s Black Mass and Marielle Heller’s The Diary of A Teenage Girl.
The Green strand presented by Discovery Channel showcases the Latin American premiere of Cyril Barbançon and Andy Byatt’s Hurricane 3D and the Mexican premieres of Louie Psihoyos’s Racing Extinction and Luc Jacqyet’s La Glace Et Le Ciel.
Festival top brass have also announced entries in the Cabos In Progress initiative for films in post that are made in or being produced with Mexico.
The selections...
- 10/20/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Elephant Eye Films has acquired North American rights to Sebastian Silva's "La Nana" (The Maid), which will be released theatrically in the fall.
Written by Silva and Pedro Peirano, the film stars Catalina Saaverdra as a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Gregorio Gonzalez served as executive producer on "La Nana," with Edgar San Juan, Issa Guerra and Sebastian Sanchez serving as association producers.
The film won the Dramatic World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and a Special Jury Prize for Saavedra's performance at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
It is the first narrative film acquired by Elephant Eye, headed by Kim Jose and David Robinson.
The distribution deal was negotiated by Jose and Robinson and Shoreline Entertainment's Sam Eigen.
Written by Silva and Pedro Peirano, the film stars Catalina Saaverdra as a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Gregorio Gonzalez served as executive producer on "La Nana," with Edgar San Juan, Issa Guerra and Sebastian Sanchez serving as association producers.
The film won the Dramatic World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and a Special Jury Prize for Saavedra's performance at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
It is the first narrative film acquired by Elephant Eye, headed by Kim Jose and David Robinson.
The distribution deal was negotiated by Jose and Robinson and Shoreline Entertainment's Sam Eigen.
- 4/8/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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